There are more and more students at the TUM campus in Freising.
The pandemic is sometimes responsible for this.
Freising
- The number of students on the TUM campus in Freising is increasing.
Around 5,200 women and men have registered - around 4,400 directly at the TUM School of Life Sciences, as well as students from other TUM schools, for example in teacher training courses.
As Klaus Becker, press officer at the Technical University of Munich reports, there are around 300 more new students in Freising than at the beginning of the lectures in the previous year - and the enrollment phase for the new semester is not yet over.
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Dean Ingrid Kögel-Knabner gives two reasons for the positive trend in enrollments.
"On the one hand, here in Weihenstephan we offer many courses of study that address the latest hot topics of the future and are therefore very attractive to young people - for example in the fields of biotechnology and biomedicine, nutritional sciences and resource management."
Study instead of travel
On the other hand, Kögel-Knabner believes that the pandemic has also contributed to the increased number of enrollments.
“In the past, school leavers often took a year off before starting their studies in order to travel and get to know the world.
This has become much more difficult with Corona.
That is why many more people decide to start their studies straight away.
However: The pandemic does not prevent young people from abroad from coming to Freising to study.
On the contrary: the proportion of foreign students at TUM is higher than ever before, it is currently 27 percent last year: 24 percent).
The dean is pleased. "Because it shows that the TU enjoys a good reputation internationally."
Uni is slowly reaching the limits of its spatial capacity
The downside of the growth trend on the Freising campus: The university is slowly reaching its spatial capacity limits - at least in pandemic times, when overcrowded lecture halls and seminar rooms have to be avoided. Kögel-Knabner is therefore happy that the TUM continues to have the large-capacity tent available for lectures, which was set up in summer 2020 in order to expand space resources during examination times. “The tent costs a lot of money. That is why it was also up for discussion in the summer to have it dismantled, ”reports Kögel-Knabner. "Fortunately we didn't do that."
3G applies to attending lectures and courses.
“And that is also controlled by us,” emphasizes the dean, who is happy that university life is taking place “in attendance” again, because one can simply better cater to the different needs of students.
However, her way of holding lectures had changed due to her experience with distance learning.
“I am now using multimedia a lot more than I used to be.
